The Phenomenological Quest beyond Consciousness

Abstract

With the publication of the most recent volumes of the Husserliana, materials have been offered on the basis of which the urgency, even from the Husserlian perspective, to confront and analyse phenomena that apparently lie beyond the limits of phenomenological research becomes evident. As it is easy to understand, these are matters that do not simply constitute a puzzle for phenomenological methodology as such, but rather have relevant implications for ethical, legal, and existential perspectives as well. Just think of the question of animal rights, the legal and moral status of the comatose or amnesiac, etc. This issue of Discipline Filosofiche is devoted to exploring such issues. Submissions are welcome that deal either with the possibility in general of a phenomenology of such “phenomena,” or offer analyses of any of these phenomena from a systematic or historical-theoretical perspective.